Brockton man faces domestic violence charges

BROCKTON – Todd Rippel got a knock on his door around midnight Friday from a petrified 14-year-old girl who lives next door.“Mikey stabbed my mother,” the girl said.

Family and neighbors said Michael Patrick Murray flew into a rage late Friday night and punched his girlfriend in the face, sliced his mother with a knife and broke her leg at their home on Kenelworth Avenue in Brockton.

Murray, 26, was charged with three counts of attempted murder, two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, two counts of assault and battery, two counts of intimidating a witness and threat to commit a crime.

Another neighbor, Linda Duhamel, said she called 911 when she heard yelling.

“I live next door and I heard the scream. It sounded like somebody was being murdered,” she said. “It seemed like it was a long time but it probably wasn’t but the screams were getting worse. So I called 911 again and I said ‘You don’t understand, it sounds like somebody is being killed here.’”

Duhamel went over to the house to see if the women were OK and she was confronted by an enraged Murray, who told her to leave.

He then punched her in the side of the head after she turned her back, Duhamel said.

“He knocked me on my ass good,” she said. “When he hit me, I was on the phone with police.”

Murray’s girlfriend was taken to the hospital with a broken nose and a black eye. She needed stitches on her nose.

“I saw a picture of her in the hospital,” Rippel said. “He caved her face in.”

Murray’s father, Lawrence Murray, said his son has anger issues.

“He just went off, downstairs with his girlfriend. He came up here and the next thing you know, everybody was involved in it,” said Lawrence Murray, who was not in the house at the time of the incident.

During the fracas, Michael Murray’s mother suffered a broken leg and was sliced on her hand with a knife trying to prevent him from stabbing her.

“He had her in a choke hold, picked her up in the air and she might have hit her leg on the counter or something,” Lawrence Murray said.

Lawrence Murray said his son may have mental issues but has never been evaluated.

“He would never go and find out. We offered to help him and he would never go,” he said.

Both women are expected to be OK.

Michael Murray is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Brockton District Court.